[Nix-dev] mix and match

[Cameron Turner]

On 19 March 2016 at 07:33, Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to build a nixos based on 15.09, but use gitlab
> from master. Thus I basically want to use the 15.09
> channel and layer gitlab[1] at 1cd99b1 and the gitlab
> service[2] at 38579a1 at on top of it.


So I wouldn't generally do that on an Internet-facing system -
security patches are not always applied to the latest stable release,
never mind the one before that.